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A. E. JONES. SUSPENDER BUCKLE.

No. 499,836. Patented June 20, 1893 witnesses JIM/@1512:

UNITED STATES;

PATENT. OFFICE.

ARTHUR E. JONES, OF NEVV BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR OF ONE- I-IALF TO CHARLES J. WVHITE, OF SAME PLACE.

Z'SUSPENDEIR-BIUCKVLIE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 499,836, dated June 20, 1893.

Application filed March 15, 1893. Serial No. 466,054. (No model.)

' Britain, in the county of Hartford and State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Suspender-Buckles, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in suspender buckles, and the objects of my improvement are simplicity and cheapness of construction and general efficiency of the article.

In the accompanying drawings: Figure 1 is a front elevation of my suspender buckle with a ring and suspender straps hooked thereon. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the same. Fig. 3 is a detached plan view of my buckle frame. Fig. 4c is a front elevation of 'my buckle as applied to asuspender, together with the ring of the suspender straps illustrating the manner of attaching and detaching the same to the hook of the buckle. Fig. 5 is a front view of. the tongue with part of the frame broken away, and Fig. 6 is an elevation showing my buckle in a modified form for use as a slide.

I form the buckle frameA of wire, the same being doubled upon itself, as at 6, and the wire so doubled again folded upon itself as at 7 to form a hook to receive the ring 8 of the suspender straps 19. The two members of the wire are then spread laterally away from the point of the hook, then bent forward and back to form the guard 9 near the upper end of the hook, then upwardly to the cross bar of the frame which is formed of reversed curves 10 and 11 and short straight portions on each side from which it is bent backward at right angles to the main frontof the frame and its ends brought toward each other, as at 12, to form the axial support for the buckle tongue 13. This buckle tongue is'formed of sheet metal with a plate like h'andle 14B and pointed bar 13, the same being bent wholly or partially around the pivotal support 12 of the frame. I prefer to employ the strengthening tube 15 placed upon the tongue support 12 within the angle of the buckle tongue and its handle as shown in Fig. 2. The end portions of said tube 15 maybe embraced. by the lugs 16 formed near the side edges of the buckle tongue, and the middle portion of said tube embraced by means of the lug orflap 19 cut from the handle 14 and rolled over said tube as best. shown in Figs. 2 and 5. I also prefer to-give a neat finish and strengthen the handle by the bead 18 as shown in Fig. 5.

The points on the buckle tongue 13 are so spaced with reference to the reverse bends in the cross bar of the frame as to come within the space formed in said bends as shown in Fig. 1.

My buckle will be secured to the'suspender B by passing the same between the buckle tongue andthe cross bar of the frame, when the handle 14: is turned outwardly, and then securing the same by turning the handle back to engage the suspender between the points of the buckle tongue and cross bar. The ring 8 of the straps 9 can be attached and detached from the hook when it is in an edgewise position as shown in Fig. 4, but it is prevented from being detached when itlies fiat, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2, by the stop shoulders or guard 9 toward the upper part of the hook and can only be detached from the hook by turning it more or less edgewise.

In Fig. 6 I have shown substantially the same buckle as applied to the suspender,but with the hook omitted and the loop 17 substituted for said hook, the said loop being designed to receive the free end of the suspender and thelbuckle arranged to slide along the body of the suspender to adjust its length.

I claim as my invention 1. The herein described suspender buckle consisting of a frame having the cross bar provided with transverse bends, an axial support for the tongue in the rear of said cross bar and a tongue provided with points arranged opposite the spaces formed by said transverse bends, substantially as described and for the purpose specified.

2. In a suspender buckle, the hook for receiving the ring 8, having the stop shoulders 9 upon each side thereof and side members extending upwardly therefrom to the cross bar of the frame, substantially as described and for the purpose specified.

3. In a suspender buckle, the strengthening tube 15 and the combined tongueand handle with the lug or flap 19 cut and bent from the handle around the middle portion of said tube, substantially as described and for the purpose specified.

4.. In a suspender buckle, the strengthening tube 15 and the combined tongue and handle with the lugs 16 near the side edges of the pose specified.

5. In a suspender buckle the strengthening tube, and the lugs 16 bent around said tube I near its ends, substantially asdescribed and for the purpose specified. tongue bent around said tube near its ends, f substantially as described and for the pur- ARTHUR E. JONES. Witnesses:

G. L. WOODING, CLARENCE E. SMITH. 

